Being Palangi will also be available from September 2015 as an e-book via Amazon.
Audio, author and other enquiries from DecisionMaker Publications Ltd, ahaas@decisionmaker.co.nz, 027 2422301.

Looking ahead
Find out more about case studies, briefings and profiles to foster the economic development of the Wairarapa. Contact Anthony Haas, ahaas@decisionmaker.co.nz, 0272422301 or other members of the project team.

Participation
is invited
in DecisionMaker with its focus on "How central
government works locally".
The out-of-print DecisionMaker Guide to Parliament and Government
2006 edition for New Zealand, was released on CD with
new features in the second quarter 2006. It and the 2003 book edition
are out of print, and pledges are now coming in, supporting further
web and print editions.

Briefings to Key ministers atwww.beehive.govt.nz
We view the consolidation of publicly available briefings, first
by the government, to be a valuable contribution for those who wish
to take a whole of government perspective from their silo standpoint.
The will, and the information technology, makes this possible.Find out moreinDecisionMaker
Links.

NZ's National Government, led by John
Key, was formed in November 2008, and set off in search of an
economic growth route. But the sword of Damocles hangs over it -
and other New Zealanders.

The report by Anthony Haas on the National Government's formation
was the first in the series of citizenship education reports introducing
the 49th NZ Parliament.

DecisionMaker experience
has been applied outside as well as inside New Zealand by the Centre
for Citizenship Education charitable trust (CCE).

Kansai
through Kiwi eyesdevelops understanding
about societies. It is a multimedia educational resource with its
own website, DVD and booklet. It is now in New Zealand schools -
supporting social science teaching. Click on kansai.ac.nzCCE, supported by the Commonwealth Foundation in 2010,
began a Pacific
citizens capacity building programme in citizenship education
in Tonga as the Kingdom moved from Constitutional monarchy to Parliamentary
democracy. Find out more at www.citizenshipeducation.net

CCE in 2012 supported Media, MPs and Constituents,
a virtual seminar in the Pacific Islands Public Policy Programme
of the School of Government of VUW.

Anticipate
accounts of consulting migrants in Being Palangi, My Pacific
Journey, the forthcoming memoir of Anthony Haas, written
in 2011-2012.

Updated
17 July 2012

Being Palangi: My Pacific Journey
A memoir, by Anthony Haas

Being Palangi: My Pacific Journey tells of the ongoing development of New Zealand as a Pacific nation - through the personal and professional experience of New Zealand born Anthony Haas. In this book Haas builds on the work of Dr Michael King about who New Zealanders are, where they have come from and what might affect their future.

Anthony Haas has spent much of his professional life writing as a journalist about, and publishing on New Zealand's relations with Asia and the Pacific. He champions development journalism, encouraged to practice it initially by his New Zealand friend in the UNDP Ross Mountain. Some people opposed development journalism - particularly in the US and other parts of the West - but development journalism from Anthony Haas was syndicated by the Press Foundation of Asia to 50 Asian newspapers from the 1970s, and encouraged into the Pacific Islands. Development journalism refers to the role of the press in socio-economic development - Haas wrote on issues ranging from coconut use to horticultural trade. Development journalism case studies include the patchy record of the outside world in reporting on and responding to the tsunami victims on Niuatoputapu and other failures in providing more effective aid; "more topics to illustrate to the next generation of development journalists what they could cover". Haas aligns himself with those who say "Development journalism is similar to investigative reporting, but it focuses on conditions in developing nations and ways to improve them".

In the memoir he reflects on the influence of his German Jewish heritage and the extent to which his focus on Asia and the Pacific was, in part, a rejection of Europe: Germany in particular. His father, Karl Haas, left his studies at Heidelberg law school to become a farmer in Pahiatua, having been told by his father, Ludwig Haas, to go as far away from Germany as he could. Ludwig Haas, who died in 1930, was the Democratic Party leader in the German Parliament during the Weimar Republic. He foresaw the evils that were coming with the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Being Palangi: My Pacific Journey celebrates the cultural diversity of New Zealand. It recognizes New Zealand is shaped by a rich variety of influences including those from Polynesia, Europe, Asia and elsewhere. The Haas personal story reflects that diversity. His wife, Tricia Donnelly, is of Irish Catholic descent. They have an adopted Tongan daughter, Fisi'iahi Setefano, three mokopuna and an extended Tongan family network.

This book is particularly useful for teachers, students and researchers of citizenship education, economic and political development, agri-business, tourism, social sciences, journalism, advocacy and the causes of World War 11.

His
2009 and 2008
columns were released on this site. Click on the relevant
date to view the index and chose a column about Prime Minister
John Key's National minority government, tourism, aquaculture
amd wine, seasonal work and other topics.

CCE
Networking Seminar 2006

The Video Conference with the Center for Civic Education
USA and the discussion in Parliament's Beehive betwen 100
New Zealanders and Americans was summarised by New Zealand's
Centre for Citizenship Education in the fourth quarter 2006.
Click here for audio,
photos and more about the disscussion